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Karan Tripathi 23rd May 2018
Despite India’s liberal and secular commitments, honour killing has remained a social reality. A report by the National Crime Records Bureau records at least 288 cases of such violence in the period 2014-2016. Against this background, the Supreme Court of India, on 28th March 2018, passed a landmark judgment in Shakti Vahini v. Union of […]
Zijun Zhao 18th May 2018
In Chinese law, a “right to health” has long existed as a negative civil right in Civil Law. For the first time in the legislative draft of the Basic Healthcare and Health Promotion Law, a ‘right to health’ has been proposed as a positive social right. In January 2018, the draft was opened for public consultation […]
Loureen Sayej 14th May 2018
On this 70th commemoration of the Nakba (catastrophe), Palestinian refugees and their descendants still constitute one of the largest and longest-standing unresolved refugee crises in the world, with 7.54 million refugees in addition to 720,000 internally displaced persons. Nearly 5.3 million refugees are registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees […]
Shreya Mohapatra 14th May 2018
The Kerala High Court judgment annulling the marriage of Hadiya, a 24-year-old homeopathy student from Kerala with a Muslim man, Shafin Jahan, and the Supreme Court of India instigating a National Investigation Agency (NIA) inquiry into the matter have already gone down in public discourse as one of the judiciary’s most problematic decisions. The courts […]
Tenesha Myrie 11th May 2018
In listening to the experiences of the Windrush generation and their treatment by the UK Home Office, what stands out to many of us in the Commonwealth Caribbean is the indignity suffered by the persons affected. Upon the invitation of the UK government, they emigrated from the Caribbean to the UK between the late 1940s […]